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Tissa19

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A monk known as Āraddhavipassaka-Tissa who developed insight and attained Arahantship after a slave-girl’s song about mortality, heard just as he watched a lotus open at sunrise, struck him with the truth of impermanence.

A monk known as Āraddhavipassaka-Tissa. While walking about he saw a lotus open at the rising of the sun. Immediately afterwards, he heard a slave-girl singing; her song told of how men are subject to death just as the lotus opens to the sun. Tissa thereupon developed insight and became an Arahant.³¹

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